The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER once fought two
duels in one day.
THERE are 1,4oO, coo, 900 cigarettes smoked
In this country annually.
They are raising peaches ten inches In
circumference at Bentonville, Ark.
The hop crop of tho Mohawk Valley, N.
". is said never to be finer in quality.
ALL the Vanderbilt roads will do away
with the deadly car stove this winter.
THE Pacific Railway Commission will
sit in New York from September 20 to Oc-
tobcr l.
AMERICAN wind-mills are helping Egypt's
grain growers to compete with Western
farmers.
"A LITTLE child near Charlotte, Mich,
fell into u milk can head first and was
drowned.
COUNTERFEIT two-dollar silver certif-
Gates are giving considerable trouble in
New Jersey.
In Milan, they have no sidewalks; but
the entire street is paved smoothly from
house to house.
THE people of this country spend $50,
000, 900 q year for silks. Less than half of
it is woven here.
VAGUE rumors are in the social breeze
about coming marriage of a Duke to an
"American girl"
THE great Tower Of Babel which is TO
distinguish the French Exhibition Of 1889
is gradually rising.
MARK TWAIN, the richest humorist in the
world, Is an inveterate smoker and an UNI
firing billiard player
EMPLOYEES Of the Pennsylvania railroad
are to organize independent assemblies Of
the Knights of Labor.
IT is said that Flood and Mackay lost
SS,O00,O00 in the recent attempted wheat
corner in San Francisco
GTNERAL BLACK, the Pension Commits
m ar, draws the largest pension enjoyed
by any soldier-s25 week.
Az O'Nel (Neb.) girl fell out of second
story window to the ground and landed
uninjured on her rubber hustle.
1t is said of Russell Sage that he can
command S25,OOO,OO0 in cash in half an
hour any time during business hours.
THERE is still another railroad danger
that must go along with the car stove and
the wooden bridge-the grade crossing.
AN Ensenada {Cal.) paper speaks of ma
hogany as so plentiful in that section that
it forms the cheapest kind of fuel for do
mestic use.
j. Z. SHERMAN, of Cape Charles, Va, has
raised $4,000 worth of kale from fifty
acres, or 1920 per acre. His net profit is
sl2,951, or 1853 per acre.
The public debt has been reduced at the
average rate of So, 706, ,975 eacn year, STA,
1856 each day, and sl2O.47 for every minute
of the last twenty-five years.
AT Seymour, Can, the other day, man
was found dead in the woods with child
playing beside the dead body, but toe
young to convey any information.
WHEN u horse with the cognomen Of
Laggard wins q $4,000 purse, the eternal
unfitness of things on this mundane
sphere receives another striking illustra-
tion.
A BOLD, bad young man has been writing
love letters to the daughter of Jay Gould,
and her brother explains to reporter
that the writer has never seen the young
lady.
MILLroSAIRI MAcKAY, of California,
has received the cross of the Legion of
Honor from the French Government for
making Havre the terminus of his Atlantic
cable.
Mrs. ROGERS is the cattle Queen of Tex.
as, said to be worth 81 100000. Her hus-
band is preacher, and Mrs. Rogers
looks after the business end Of the estab-
lishment.
THE Mormons have story that some
Eastern phrenologist has offered 81, 600 for
John Taylor's head, and the tomb of thu
dead president will be jealously guarded
in consequence.
PRESIDENT CLEvELAND's invitation to
Pittsburgh is to be engraved on steel
plate, which is to be rolled until it is only
three-thousandths of an inch in thickness
and can be rolled together in the form Of
a scroll.
WHARTON BAKER, OF Philadelphia, is at
the head of the American syndicate which
has just secured such extensive conces-
sions in China for banking, building rail-
roads, telegraphs and telephones, devel-
oping mines, etc.
THE death of Prof. Baird before com.
pleting his siXty-tifth year shows that men
of science do not always understand the
science of life. A man of his powerful
physique and great abilities should have
lived at least eighty years.
Nor to be outdone by Van Phon Lee, the
Chinaman, 10 Kichi Takomini, a Japanese
nobleman, has just married Miss Carrie
Hitch, beautiful Creole belle of New Or
leans. There seems to be no limit to the
enterprise Of American girls.
A PHOTOGRAPH, said to be one of the
largest in the world, has been taken of the
United States Treasury building at Wash
ington. 1t measures seven feet by four
and is to be presented to ex-Secretary of
the Treasury, Daniel E. Manning.
The real estate craze in Southern Cali.
fornia has even demoralized the doctors.
In writing a prescription recently one of
them added this direction: 'sTake one
third down and the remainder in one and
,wo years, secured by mortgage"
SEVEN thousand people assembled at City
Point, Boston, the other day, to witness a
series of swimming matches between
dogs. The contestants swan from barge
anchored about half mile off shore to
point within a short distance of land.
DE-. SPENCER +. BAIRD, the deceased
secretary Of the Smithsonian In nstitute, is
the author OF more than loo books, PAM
phlets and publications of various kinds.
ELDER EVANS, of the Shaker community
mt New Lebanon, Columbia County, N. Y,
has just celebrated his eighty-fifth birth
day. For tifty-tive years he has abstained
from eating fish and flesh.
THERE is said to be man in Leadville,
Col, who can tell by the tingling sensation
in his fingers when he walks over body
OF ore. He is living mineral detector.
His powers are said to have been thor
oughy tested, and he has made large sums